So you have your Windows Home Server, with its four built-in drive bays already maxed out with storage. How are you going to expand it so you can rip the rest of your movie collection or store all of that TV you record on the Media Center? Perhaps you can expand by connecting standalone external […]
The How-To Geek has a nice tutorial in getting the add-in Addin Central up and running. The tutorial also takes you through the various settings available for the add-in which enables you to find add-ins right from within the Windows Home Server console as well as notifying you when updates to your installed add-ins are […]
Senior Product Manager with Microsoft’s Windows Server Marketing team Mark Pendergrast will be hosting a live Q&A Coffee Coaching session on the "HP StorageWorks X500 Data Vault & Windows Home Server". So if you have questions, you may ask them on Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 between 9:00 – 9:30 US Central Time. You can access […]
The How-To Geek has a "Complete Guide to Networking Windows 7 with XP and Vista" which also highlights Windows Home Server as: …an ultimate setup that creates a centralized location to share files between all systems on your home network, regardless of the operating system… You can read their guide here. [tweetmeme only_single=”false”]
The Western Digital (WD) range of hard drive known as EARS come from the factory with their sector size set to 4K, which isn’t compatible with Server 2003 (and Windows Home Server). Thankfully the Home Server Show blog has a guide on how to set up the HDD for use on Windows Home Server by […]
Our friends at ServeTheHome.com have a review of a low power AMD Sempron 140 in a Windows Home Server self build. The 45W CPU is looked at for its performance and low power consumption. Where the Sempron 140 really shines for a Windows Home Server build is value. The CPU is in the $35 or […]
Computer hardware review site HotHardware has a roundup of 2TB hard drives from Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital (WD). Its a great 11 page review which looks at general purpose hard drives, performance drives and those designed for the enterprise. Loads of benchmarks are included plus cost per GB and bang-for-the-buck graphs, which you can […]
The Techknology’s Blog has a post on RAID which explains the various RAID modes, as well as RAID alternatives; including JBOB and Drive Extender. You can find it here. [tweetmeme only_single=”false”]
Axigen is a mail server working in a similar way to vPOP3 and SmarterMail the latter of which I will be reviewing next week, the former I reviewed last week and you can see here. I wasn’t sure what to expect when reviewing Axigen, I knew there wasn’t going to be any WHS console integration, […]
The Asus TS mini Home Server includes an add-in for backing up its shared folders online, and the good news is that the Asus WebStorage add-in is available and can be installed on any Windows Home Server – Not just the Asus. The add-in allows you to backup data from your Home Server to ASUS […]
